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Podcasting from Space
An anonymous reader writes "Podcasting has officially made it into orbit! According to a Geekzone article, Mission Specialist Steve Robinson delivered a short monologue off the southeast tip of Indonesia in which he described the morale of the Discovery crew at the end of their well-publicized mission: 'It's been a fantastic mission up here, absolutely amazing. Some of the hardest work that any of us have ever done. We haven't had a whole lot of sleep, and we've been extremely busy and really happy.' A transcript of the podcast as well as the MP3 itself can be found at Nasa's site."
Will have escape podcasts. *rimshot*
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What is podcasting?
New NASA technology?
Something like blogs.
This is truly amazing once you understand the details.
They take audio from the Shuttle, digitize it, convert it into an MP3 audio file, create an XML document that refers to the MP3 file, and then jam it all on an accessible web server.
The most amazing part: they have a pretty good workflow to do this whole thing!
Strangely, the web server was not actually located on the shuttle itself. What gives?
Podcasting is just another hip-to-be-cool term coined by some luminary metrosexual in the blogosphere. Somewhere out there right now there is a passive agressive latte sipping boob tapping "how I invented podcasting", his first book, into an imac. Its the new warhol, baby. I can't wait until the standard of coolness for these new age middle age wanna be a teen icon sorts is how long you can survive in a room with a starved pit bull.
What he can't kill, he has sex on. Trent.
Which would make this not a podcast. It would make it an "audio recording".
Well, I got this funny feeling that this whole "audio recording" thing is gonna take off like gangbusters...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Thanks for clearing that up. I am now left wondering why this is the buzzword du jour, as it seems pretty boring. Do we have "Podcasts" of "blogs" now, so the angsty teens can discuss their angst in full 44kHz angst-filled audio? These types of trends make me fear for our future sometimes. :-(
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Apparantly you don't understand the workings of NASA
1. NASA gets MP3.
2. NASA calls it a podcast.
3. NASA forms committies to manage the development and implementation of aforementioned podcast.
4. NASA develops several deriviate commercial products based on the podcast.
5. NASA mismanages the entire organization into chaos.
6. DEBT!!!
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Read this article - I think you'd enjoy it (and it is indeed relevant to the discussion).
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Plus, since mp3s are smaller than uncompressed audio, the files weigh less.
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